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They were walking towards a recess, when Lady Tyrrell fastened upon Raymond. "Pray find my sister; she forgets that we have to be at Lady Granby's Oh! are you there, Lenore! Will you see her down, Mr. Poynsett? Well, Frank, did you get as far as you intended?" And she went down on his arm, her last words being, "Take care of yourself till we meet at home.
The hounds were registered, as can be seen now in Lord Middleton's private kennel stud book, through which his lordship can trace the pedigrees of his present pack for a hundred and sixty years to hounds that were entered in 1760, got by Raytor, son of Merryman and grandson of Lord Granby's Ranter.
Dominick, roaring with laughter, came to Roebuck and me standing at the door, both dazed at this magic shift of a "gentlemen's" dinner into a bear-pit. "Granby's ghost is raisin' hell," said he. But I had no impulse to laugh or to gloat. "Good night," said I to Roebuck and hastened away. It was the end of the attempt to mine the foundations of my power. But I did not neglect its plain warning.
One sees such strange matches every day, I am resolved never to be surprised at any thing: who can, that lives in the world? But really now I am surprised at Mr. Granby. What! is she nothing?" "Nothing absolutely nothing; a cipher; a nonentity." "Now really? you do not tell me so," said Mrs. Nettleby. "Well, I am so disappointed; for I always resolved to take example by Mr. Granby's wife."
He could not do more for you if you were his mistress." "He never did so much for me, till I was his wife," said Emma. "That's strange! Very unlike other men. But, my dear," said Mrs. Bolingbroke, taking Mrs. Granby's arm, and drawing her aside, "how did you acquire such surprising power over your husband?" "By not desiring it, I believe," replied Emma, smiling; "I have never used any other art."
Ferdinand's head-quarter is seven or eight miles to northwest of this his Brucken-Muhle and extreme left; next to Brucken-Muhle is Zastrow's Division; next, again, is Granby's; several Divisions between Ferdinand and it; 'Do it by surprisal, by utmost force of vehemency! say the French. And accordingly,
The next morning I had the legislature and the attorney-general at work demolishing Granby's business in my state for I had selected him to make an example of, incidentally because he had insulted me, but chiefly because he was the most notorious of my ten, was about the greediest and crudest "robber baron" in the West.
All my "clients" and Dominick he at Roebuck's right. At Roebuck's left there was a vacant chair. "Shall I sit here?" said I easily. "That place was reserved was for but " stammered Roebuck. "For Granby's ghost?" said I pleasantly. His big lips writhed.
The lightning flashed without effect. "To Mrs. Granby's!" cried she, in a thundering tone. "To Mrs. Granby's!" echoed he. She fell back on the sofa, and a shower of tears ensued. Her husband walked up and down the room, rang again for the carriage, ordered it in the tone of a master. Then hummed a tune. The fair one sobbed: he continued to sing, but was out in the time.
It was the irony of fate my power thus ludicrously thwarted by a triviality. Within twenty-four hours I realized the danger to our campaign. I sent Woodruff post-haste to the widow. He gave her convincing assurances that she and her children were to be lifted from the slough of poverty into which Granby's drunkenness had thrust them.
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